Re: Turn 17
 

Making it 7 nays (5 living) to 5 yeses, meaning 12 is still defeated. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Turn 17
 

If it's 5 to 5, the proposition passes. Assuming that Grundle and B'hemet are in fact deceased (and have been throughout the voting period) we've still got a contest. Otherwise, we'll all just continue munching mortals in private. Kir'Doq of T'ien Ch'i could still kill it with a nay vote, though.

Everyone (including Ironhawk) should bear in mind that it is not a competition of who has eaten the most in history, it is only a contest of who can eat the most during one particular month. As such, everyone can compete on equal grounds.

Re: Turn 17
 

B'hemet was alive! Back from the dead for a turn or two now...

Re: Turn 17
 

My bad. I thought Prop 10 allowed the representative of a dead wyrm to vote but, in fact, it does not.

Murmur of C'tis

Re: Turn 17
 

5 to 5 shouldn't pass - it doesn't have the slightest illusion of a majority. Imagine you and I are playing a game of chess, and I say, "Hey! I propose that knights should be able to move like rooks!"

You say "Hell no!", I say, "Yes!" - same proportion of voting as 5 to 5.

That's why most representative democracies have someone who can break a tie, voting only in the case of a tie, because otherwise, a tie would, and should, fail.

Re: Turn 17
 

The current charter dictates that a tie vote passes. The intention was to allow controversial proposals to pass, so that more things happen. Given that virtually none of the proposals have passed so far, this seems like a reasonable bit of foresight on the part of the constitutional committee. The example you gave only applies, I think, when the voters are divided into two opposing camps - in that case, you're guaranteed to have anarchy. In our case, however, it's every wyrm for himself, and it seems to me there shouldn't be a problem. Maybe my intuition is wrong though...

...and you could always propose an amendment to change things. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

Re: Turn 17
 

Seems to call for some sort of quorum requirement.

Prop 13
 

QUORUM REQUIREMENT? What do you think Proposition 13 was about? BWARGH!
--Sak

Re: Prop 13
 

Mistakes were made, and I would like to apologize to all my fellow wyrms for not noticing before now that it was impossible to upload images to the wiki. That was never my intent, and I have now fixed it. Apep has assured me that those responsible were summarily eaten (but very wyrmanely), and that it won't happen again, but if it does, he'll eat them, too.

-puffyn

Turn 18
 

Turn 18 has been sent. Next deadline is Thursday at 8 PM MST. News:
1. Ermor has staled.
2. Tvitno, the Caelum Death Elder, has won the Death Match.
3. No wyrms in the HOF died.